five word game:

I am playing around in a Christian poetry and writing group online. They have a little game where five words are presented, a poster writes a poem with them and then assigns the next person five different words. Initially, I played with the first two challenges and then wrote a third to post as a participant.

Here they are:

wispy, wool, tangled, frenzy, ancient
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In ancient days the simple wool cossack and wispy white hair surrounding balding pate showed wisdom and inspired confidence
and so in worldly wisdom the youthful thought it worth the frenzy, in tangled frame of mind, to present their wisdom in shaving a balding pate!

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yellow, pincher, pole, particle, hour

The first one I wrote:

moderate, solution, widespread, complete

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A way of life centered in habits that moderate between extremes.
The youthful rarely care, but increasing age and mortality looming
creates widespread concerns to maintain health, avoid excess and complete our allotted span of years.

(I didn't say they were good!)

The second:

satisfied, foamy, scatter, truths, wither

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Foamy edged waves race over sand as smoothly as water over marble,
tiny bubbles pop and crackle as toes wriggle into the sand and peek and hide.
Wind will scatter leaves and blows chill down snugged collars,
it presses with pride to drive all ahead to end in hidden hollows.
Satisfied with little memories held dear, our truths more like sand than wind that will wither the last flower driving in the bitter cold.